Improvement in clapboard or siding-gauges



i. W. ARNOLD. Improvement in Clapboarrd or Siding Gauges.

910.128,69@ Patentedluly 9,1872.

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j J3 G JACOB w. ARNOLD, or FAIRPORT, NEW vonk.

IMPRQVEMENT IN CLAPBOARD OR lSIDINC-GAUGES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 128,696, dated J ulyQ,1872.

I, JACOB W. ARNOLD, of Fairport, in the county of Monroe, in the Stateof New York, have invented certain Improvements in Olapboard or SidingGauges, of which the following is a specification:

\ the clapboard or siding to be iitted will abut.

C is a metal dog, having the. sharp point c at one end to be driven intoa post or stud and hold the hook fast in position. D is the hook made ofmetal, bent in the form seen in Fig. 1, pivoted at c to the dog C, sothat it will vibrate upon its pivot, bent to a right angle at d', andhas a slot, d, cut through it, as seen in Fig. 2, and has also agraduated scale, d, upon both sides of the hook. E is a slidingpoint-bolt, with head e on the inner side of the hook. e is a horizontalprojection on the head of the point-bolt, brought to a round and nearlysharp edge in one direction, andthe edge lying in a horizontal position,and when the point-bolt is placed in the slot d a screw- .nut, e, isturned down upon a screw-thread on the point-bolt and holds itsecurely-in the slot d of hook D, and in which the point-bolt can beadjusted to any gradation required. F is a plate fast to the lower endof the hook, and has points, f and f', at opposite ends and a verticalface, f, as seen in Fig. 1. At point df the width of the plate metalthat forms thehook is cut away just the thickness of the dog G, in orderto have the edge of the hook come exactly coincident with the edgeagainst which the siding is to abut. In the drawing, one side only is socut away, but in practice both sides may be so cut, and then by turningout the pivot-screw that pivots the hook to the dog at c it can bechanged to the other side thereof; or, where practicable, the hooks willbe made-in pairs to avoid changing, as the invention is the same,whether t made one way or the other.

Operation.

In siding up the outside walls of a building it must first be determinedhow much the siding shall be in" each course shown to the weather, andthis is done by the adjustable point E on the slidingbolt and thestationary point f on plate F by irst trying the width of the siding,and then spacing upon the corner-boards or casin gs with the points Eand F the same as with Compasses, and when the correct distance isascertained the nut e is turned hard down to secure the point-bolt inposition on the hook, and when this is done point f of plate F is placedat the startingpoint or where the bottom edge of the first course ofsiding will come, when the point c of dog C will be driven into post orstud A and against the edge of the corner-board or casing when the hookis in lposition. The lower end of the hook is now swung out,when thesiding G is placed upon the face of the corner-board or casing B andunder the hook, which, by its own gravitation, will assume the positionseen in Fig. 1, with the lower edge of the siding resting upon the bentlower end of the hook, when any sharp instrument used as a scribe willmark the line to cut the siding to, and when so cut will form a jointand abut against the corner-board or casing. As this is being done, theinner blunt edge e of the point-bolt E will make an indentation into theface of the siding, which indentation will determine the distance thatthe siding is laid to the weather, and when the next course is to belaid point f on plate F will be placed in the indentation made by theedge e of the point'bolt, and thus continue until the whole height ofthe wall is covered with siding equally spaced in every course. f Havingthus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is

,The siding-gauge, composed of the combination of the pivoted and benthook D pivoted to the dog C at c', having slot d therein and graduatedscale d thereon, with the fixed points f and f' on plate F, andadjustable point-bolt E, having projection e thereon, in the manner andfor the purpose substantially as described. A i

JACOB W. ARNOLD.

Witnesses:

E. F. CADY, J. S. RAMsDELL.

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